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Behold, mortal, the origins of NetHack...
Jay Fenlason wrote the original Hack with help from Kenny Woodland,
Mike Thome, and Jon Payne.
Andries Brouwer did a major re-write, transforming Hack into a very different
game, and published (at least) three versions (1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3) for
UNIX(tm) machines to the Usenet.
Don G. Kneller ported Hack 1.0.3 to Microsoft(tm) C and MS-DOS(tm), producing
PC HACK 1.01e, added support for DEC Rainbow graphics in version 1.03g, and
went on to produce at least four more versions (3.0, 3.2, 3.51, and 3.6).
R. Black ported PC HACK 3.51 to Lattice(tm) C and the Atari 520/1040ST,
producing ST Hack 1.03.
Mike Stephenson merged these various versions back together, incorporating
many of the added features, and produced NetHack version 1.4. He then
coordinated a cast of thousands in enhancing and debugging NetHack 1.4 and
released NetHack versions 2.2 and 2.3.
Later, Mike coordinated a major rewrite of the game, heading a team which
included Ken Arromdee, Jean-Christophe Collet, Steve Creps, Eric Hendrickson,
Izchak Miller, Eric S. Raymond, John Rupley, Mike Threepoint, and Janet Walz,
to produce NetHack 3.0c.
NetHack 3.0 was ported to the Atari by Eric R. Smith, to OS/2 by Timo
Hakulinen, and to VMS by David Gentzel. The three of them and Kevin Darcy
later joined the main development team to produce subsequent revisions of
3.0.
Olaf Seibert ported NetHack 2.3 and 3.0 to the Amiga. Norm Meluch, Stephen
Spackman and Pierre Martineau designed overlay code for PC NetHack 3.0.
Johnny Lee ported NetHack 3.0 to the Macintosh. Along with various other
Dungeoneers, they continued to enhance the PC, Macintosh, and Amiga ports
through the later revisions of 3.0.
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From time to time, some depraved individual out there in netland sends a
particularly intriguing modification to help out with the game. The Gods of
the Dungeon sometimes make note of the names of the worst of these miscreants
in this, the list of Dungeoneers:
Richard Addison Bruce Holloway Pat Rankin
Tom Almy Richard P. Hughey Eric S. Raymond
Ken Arromdee Ari Huttunen John Rupley
Eric Backus Del Lamb Olaf Seibert
John S. Bien Greg Laskin Kevin Sitze
Ralf Brown Johnny Lee Eric R. Smith
Jean-Christophe Collet Steve Linhart Kevin Smolkowski
Steve Creps Ken Lorber Michael Sokolov
Kevin Darcy Benson I. Margulies Stephen Spackman
Matthew Day Pierre Martineau Andy Swanson
Joshua Delahunty Roland McGrath Kevin Sweet
Jochen Erwied Norm Meluch Scott R. Turner
David Gentzel Bruce Mewborne Janet Walz
Mark Gooderum Izchak Miller Jon Watte
David Hairston Gil Neiger Tom West
Timo Hakulinen Greg Olson Gregg Wonderly
Eric Hendrickson Mike Passaretti